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Senior editor at The Atlantic, author of the forthcoming book, Powering the Dream, @alexismadrigal, & UC Berkeley visiting scholar.
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Senior editor at The Atlantic, author of the forthcoming book, Powering the Dream, @alexismadrigal, & UC Berkeley visiting scholar.
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"If the government invested a mere $100 million of our stimulus package (we’ve already spent over $72.6 billion), that means 2 billion pages of paper or microfiche would get scanned. For $500 million, we’re talking a huge chunk of our national backlog being digitized, a task that would result in an enduring digitial public work for our modern era, something that would prove immense use to future generations, and would also save the government tremendous amounts of money in storage costs and other facilities expenses."
A National Scan Center: A Public Works Project - O’Reilly Radar by Carl Malamud, a man who talks sense
